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Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

0 posted 2003-10-12 10:14 PM

Poets and fools dream,
regardless of cost to them.
Poets and fools sing
love songs, and get lost in them.
Poets and fools
mistake moondrops for jewels,
and think hearts make the rules.

Lift your glass in a toast to them:
Poets and Fools!

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

1 posted 2003-10-12 10:22 PM

talk about truth!
loved this write
and I'll toast to this one
as I look into the mirror, in memory

Dragon Mistress
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since 2002-08-26

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2 posted 2003-10-12 10:24 PM

Wow! I liked this a great deal! I cant even say why, but I did like it so very much!

Pilgrimage
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3 posted 2003-10-12 10:24 PM

Thanks, midnitesun and Dragon Mistress. I appreciate it.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

[This message has been edited by Pilgrimage (10-12-2003 10:26 PM).]

Kaz
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since 2003-10-12

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4 posted 2003-10-12 11:21 PM

This is all so true. I'm always a fool who listens to too many love songs. lol

Ratleader

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5 posted 2003-10-13 12:32 PM

I love this woman!

Here is a lady with no illusions, who rejoices anyway.....a rare gift, to be sure.

~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº>
______________Ratleader______________

Patricia
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since 2003-04-06

Posts 2160
Missouri

6 posted 2003-10-13 06:38 AM

Nan, I love this truth you penned so beautifully. Led by heart, yes, I am guilty. So, am I poet or a fool...or a little of both?

I am glad I stopped by this morning.

Patricia

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

7 posted 2003-10-13 06:52 AM

Count me in...

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

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8 posted 2003-10-13 08:14 AM

well, I'll drink to that, a beautiful anaylsis. Thank you

Cpat Hair

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9 posted 2003-10-13 08:45 AM

I'll take "fool" for 500 please....

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

10 posted 2003-10-13 09:04 AM

Pilgrimage
Excellent.

Sudhir Iyer
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Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

11 posted 2003-10-13 09:08 AM

Please fill myself to the fool

and since you asked any help with construction

  P
F O O L S
  E
  T
  S

never mind me...

regards
Sudhir

Nan

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12 posted 2003-10-13 09:14 AM

I'll make a jewel out of a moondrop any old time... I like it, Nan..

Bonnie j
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since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

13 posted 2003-10-13 09:33 AM

Yes. Let us raise our glasses high to the poets and the writers of dreams and fun filled fantasy.
Liked the poem.
Love Bon-Bon

Midnitesun

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Gaia

14 posted 2003-10-13 09:38 AM

I like what Sudhi did with these two words!

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

15 posted 2003-10-13 10:02 AM

Kaz, There can never be too many love songs.

Ratleader, it's good to hear from you.

Patricia, I'm glad you stopped by. You're welcome to stop by anytime.

Sunshine-looks like there's a crowd in there with you.

Thank you, LeeJ.

Cpat and Seymour- thanks!

Sudhir-

Thank you for help with construction!

Nan-shall I confess that I will too?

Bonnie, thank you girl.

Midnitesun-wasn't that neat?

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Martie

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16 posted 2003-10-13 10:31 AM

I am both, and proud of it! Enjoyed this much!

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

17 posted 2003-10-13 11:13 AM

Nan~
Tee-Hee ... in the mirror, I see POET
some others see me as FOOL~

Ahhhh, to be so multi-faceted~

I plead guilty to both ... and condemn myself to being poetically sentenced for life~

Love you ... love your thoughts~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
noles1@totcon.com

Local Parasite

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since 2001-11-05

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Transylconia, Winnipeg

18 posted 2003-10-13 02:12 PM

Terrific---You executed this brilliantly... the brevity of the form adds a light quality to the already-light subject matter. I like how careful you were about tone. It is, however, true... there are poets, and there are fools. There's imagination and there's fancy, too. I don't think they're the same thing, but as you describe, poets and fools clearly have similar qualities.

Although I do act quite the fool, quite often. I'm a rather absent-minded poet. Things like doors which pull, not push, to open... quite often put me on display.

quote:
Poets and fools
mistake moondrops for jewels,

Perfect writing... I'll put this in my private library. Thanks.

Parasite

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~~~Emily Dickinson

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

19 posted 2003-10-13 02:23 PM

Here, here! Cheers to all of us fools who
make all those things that only a poet can
do. Enjoyed the write, so right on
target....

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

20 posted 2003-10-13 03:22 PM

Martie, sometimes I'm both, and quite often I'm the last one mentioned.

Marge-I don't think we can be anything but what we are. Your reply made me smile.

Local Parasite: That is very kind of you. Thank you.

Magnus-

Cheers to us!

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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